page_title: Jocasta complex
hierarchical_section_title: Jocasta complex
caption_attribution_description: Oedipus Separating from Jocasta
context_page_description: In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
  Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, including domineering but asexual mother love – something perhaps particularly prevalent with an absent father.
context_section_description: In psychoanalytic theory, the Jocasta complex is the incestuous sexual desire of a mother towards her son.
  Raymond de Saussure introduced the term in 1920 by way of analogy to its logical converse in psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex, and it may be used to cover different degrees of attachment, including domineering but asexual mother love – something perhaps particularly prevalent with an absent father.
caption: Oedipus Separating from Jocasta by Alexandre Cabanel
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2010:12:18 08:06:44", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "7971", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "576", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "448"}